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transfan:

--- Quote from: extendedplayarcade on July 14, 2010, 04:05:47 pm ---I was thinking of making a cabinet dedicated to only trackball games.  But yet again I think a lot  :cheers:

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It would be awesome if you could somehow interface it to your mind...
Then you wouldn't even need a control panel
SlayerAlex:
one extreme is to have every dedicated cab ever, the other is to have 1 cab for everything. The everything route doesnt make much sence. Most of those games are crap, or use controls that you dont even have.

In my lifetime though id like to compromise with:

1 for vertical games/ spinner games
1 neogeo cab for neogeo games
1 6 button 2 player cab for street fighter / misc fighters
1 huge 4 player/ trackball cab
and
1 driving cab or cockpit if i ever find a good deal in my area.


5 is a good number, ah man that would be sweet
Vulgar Soul:

--- Quote from: SlayerAlex on July 14, 2010, 04:49:00 pm ---one extreme is to have every dedicated cab ever, the other is to have 1 cab for everything. The everything route doesnt make much sence. Most of those games are crap, or use controls that you dont even have.

In my lifetime though id like to compromise with:

1 for vertical games/ spinner games
1 neogeo cab for neogeo games
1 6 button 2 player cab for street fighter / misc fighters
1 huge 4 player/ trackball cab
and
1 driving cab or cockpit if i ever find a good deal in my area.


5 is a good number, ah man that would be sweet


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Yeah, I was thinkin of something like that.

I would love one for vertical shooters; one nice lean 2 player, 6 button fighter cab; The 4 player,trackball all-in-one cab; a 4-way, 2-4 button "80's classics" cab; a spinner games cabinet; and maybe a driver cab.

Until than, I'm gonna have to organize the front end!
Turnarcades:
I wanted as much available as possible to find those hidden gems, without having clutter. I guess I'm between the 'everything' and 'select hundreds' as I started off with a complete set of over 20000 across loads of platforms, then spent many months removing clones, mahjong, regional variations, indistinguishable hacks and variations to what I call a 'concise full set'. I'm now happy with what I've got and being a perfectionist, painstakingly went though re-naming roms, screenshots and FE lists, unzipped and recompressed roms and shrank screenshots down. I've now got a selection of about 8-9000 across about 15 platforms with no duplicates or stupid appendations like '[!], [G], set 1' etc.
SammyWI:

--- Quote from: transfan on July 14, 2010, 03:48:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: BobA on July 13, 2010, 07:22:29 pm ---Thousands and thousands do not make a good cab.   Who cares how many you have if they will never be played.


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Thousands and thousands do not NOT make a good cab, either.  Front ends have favorites lists, genres, etc.  There's no reason to not have as many titles available as possible as long as they are well-organized. 

My suggestion:  Use hyperspin and make custom wheels for custom genres.  Sports, fighting, racing, etc.


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This I agree with.  But, I use GameEx as a front end.  It has basic favorites list and also premade ways to list and sort by genre, type (vector, trackball, etc), manufacturer, year released, etc.   Plus a neat feature that lists similar games that you might want to try when you select a game.

There is something to be said for a simple, limited set of games.  But I like variety.
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